April Lorenzen

Chief Data Scientist at ZETAlytics, Computer & Network Security

Massive passive DNS data is what I comb daily, providing the most interesting IPs and domains real time as a network protection security feed.

April Lorenzen's Bio:

April Lorenzen is an internet security researcher specializing in the preemptive discovery of miscreant and crimeware resources in the domain name system. In her work as Chief Data Scientist at Zetalytics, she oversees one of the world's most geographically diverse passive DNS systems. She has operated IoC (Indicators of Compromise) security feeds continuously since 2004 and is the primary architect of the free open source data visualization tool "Mal4s.” April is also active in the white hat community as a M3AAWG Senior Technical Advisor and as a Senior Research Fellow for the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). She received the Global Impact award from the Department of Homeland Security S&T Cyber Security Division in 2016 and currently serves as the Principal Investigator for a critical infrastructure supply chain cybersecurity notification research project. She also has been appointed to serve on the Cyber Rhode Island Advisory Committee by the state’s Congressional representative. In 2006, April received an award for Outstanding Support in the Ongoing Battle Against Cyber Crime from the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA). She is a frequent trainer and speaker at international ISP, law enforcement and security industry conferences.

April Lorenzen's Experience:

  • Chief Data Scientist at Zetalytics

    Massive passive DNS data is what I comb daily, providing the most interesting IPs and domains real time as a network protection security feed. You can use our tools to set up your own custom feeds, or query our APIs. I focus on the intersection of malware and the Domain Name System.

  • Research Fellow at APWG

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/101330249

  • CEO at Server Authority Inc.

    Provides data and implementation consulting to Internet security firms, email services, law enforcement, governmental organizations, Internet research non-profits, DNS service companies, and registries. Early and pre-emptive detection of miscreants & malware across multiple protocols including HTTP and SMTP. Please see resume.

April Lorenzen's Interests & Activities:

DNS, Anti-Spam, Threat Hunting, Postgresql, shell scripting, geo-coding and Google Maps mash-ups, CFMX, HTML, web to database interfaces, automation of graphing data from SQL data